Coombe Hill House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Country house.
Coombe Hill House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-bronze-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Coombe Hill House, Bruton
- OS grid reference
- ST 683 355
- Coordinates
- 51.11816, -2.45318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe Hill House is a country house built between 1820 and 1830. It is constructed from local stone rendered with Doulting stone dressings and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with secret gutters and wide eaves soffits. The house has a central brick chimney stack with a moulded stone cap and a "T"-plan with a complex double roof. It stands two storeys high and has a five-bay south elevation, with a central half-round projection that is mirrored by similar projections on the sides and rear. The design is in the Regency Gothick style.
On the south front, bays one and five feature plain cruciform French windows, while bays two and four are blank. The central projection includes a pointed arched doorway with a glazed door and a "Y" tracery fanlight, flanked by two plain windows. Above this, there are 12-pane sash windows. The projection is accessed by a sweep of two steps, supported by four palm-style cast iron columns, leading to a curved, copper-covered bell-hip verandah that terminates in a small cast iron balcony at the centre first-floor window. The side elevations match the front, while the rear elevation includes some pointed arch windows with Gothick tracery toplights and a small bell-hipped porch at the rear entrance.
The interior of the house has seen little alteration and is in fine condition, featuring the original staircase under a lantern light, good fireplaces including one made of pine and gesso and another carved from marble, and unspoilt doors and doorcases, along with dado rails in the principal rooms. The house was built around 1830 by Mr. Thomas White and was partially rebuilt after being damaged by fire in the 1830s.
Local climate
Coombe Hill House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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